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Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.15
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Drawing, Gelt Bridge Looking up the River, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
An unfinished viaduct, upon which work groups of construction workers, towers above the river of the foreground which is spanned by a single span stone bridge upon which two women stand conversing. A third woman stands leaning on the wooden fence which leads to the bridge. To either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks; a whitewashed house stands to extreme right amongst the trees.
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company.
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No 17 Gelt Bridge. Looking up the River JWC. 1835
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